Another month in which I’m late in posting my monthly wrap up! This is getting to be something of a habit… 😬 This time it was due to a few blissful days away, both physically as I visited Hay-on-Wye as well as taking a break from social media and blogging. I’m now back and feeling very much refreshed! As an aside, the Hay Festival site looks very odd without the tents and festival venues in place… the sheep seemed to like the additional space though… 😀
July has been a slightly better month from a reading and blogging perspective. I’ve posted a little more regularly, although my reading still seems to have slowed down somewhat from what I’m used to. I’m enjoying the books I’m reading however, so I’m not going to focus on the numbers too much – I’d much rather have quality over quantity.
Books Read and Reviewed
- Read in June, reviewed in July:
- The Black Dress by Deborah Moggach
- Safe House by Jo Jakeman
- The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas
- Read in July:
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
- I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood
- Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvery
- The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
- A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
- The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman
- The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
Favourite Reads This Month
Other Blog Posts
July is Booker Prize longlist month, and I posted both my predictions for the longlist, as well as the actual longlist once revealed. It is, as ever, an interesting mix of novels, and while I don’t intend to attempt the full longlist, there are definitely a few titles here that I’ll try to read and review before the shortlist is announced in September.
20 Books of Summer
I’ve read 15 of my 20 books of summer, but I’ve only managed to review 11 of them so far. Reviews may come thick and fast this month as I try to get back on track… assuming I can actually get them written, that is…
Incoming!
I received three books for review this month:
And purchased nine:
TBR Watch
It’s going the wrong way! 😂
- Books out = 9 read + 0 DNF = 9
- Books in = 3 ARCs + 9 purchases = 12
- Equals an increase of 3 in my TBR
Jo's Book Blog 
The only way is up, Jo! 😉
Apparently so! 😂
Glad you enjoyed your break Jo and i hope August is great month for you! xx
Thank you, Nicki! x
Mine’s been going the wrong way for years, you get used to it lol x
😂